The Mystery of the Ye Mansion
As the sun sets, the newly renovated Ye Mansion is shrouded in orange-red afterglow. The girls stand at the gate of the courtyard, looking at the results of their work over the past few days.
The mottled bloody handprints, the dark green lanterns, the dilapidated ancestral hall where crows cawed from time to time, each one exudes a carefully designed sense of weirdness.
Wan Niang wiped the sweat from her forehead and hesitated, "Miss, our haunted house is built, but how do we run it? We can't really rely on scaring people. Who would dare to come here in the future?"
Ruan Yunsheng shook his finger confidently: "We need to open up a little bit. Gossip is the best driving force."
She pointed outside the gate of the Ye Mansion: "Over the years, who doesn't know the rumors that the Ye Mansion is haunted? Although no one dares to mention it openly, but privately..."
She lowered her voice and said, "It is said that even the storytellers in the east of the city are secretly telling stories about the Ye Mansion!"
Ah Luo excitedly interrupted, "So as long as we can prove that it's okay to live in the Ye Mansion, everyone will be willing to come?"
"Smart!" Ruan Yunsheng snapped his fingers. "The first step is to go to a crowded place and chat with others. They'll definitely be very curious about us living in the Ye Mansion, so we don't need to say anything."
Several people clapped their hands happily and looked at Ruan Yunsheng with admiration: "As expected of a young lady, you have thought of everything."
Sister Qing pondered for a moment, "Find a few more guys and try to persuade those fearless young men in the city to come explore..."
Ruan Yunsheng's eyes lit up as he praised Sister Qing: "Make the exploration puzzles more difficult, so they can find some clues but not fully understand them. This way..."
She smiled like a cunning fox: "Won't that mean we have repeat customers?"
Hua Rong listened to the whole story until she suddenly understood. She continued, "Then those who don't understand will surely become more curious and spread the news to attract everyone."
Ruan Yunsheng nodded approvingly, sighing that the girl had finally come to her senses. "These are all easy to handle. It's human nature, nothing will go wrong. But now..."
"The most important thing is to solve what happened in the Ye Mansion?"
She looked at everyone hoping to get some answers from them, but unfortunately she got nothing.
Obviously the girls were also innocent, as most of them came from remote areas outside the city, and they knew even less than the young ladies who had “lived here since childhood”!
"Since we can't figure it out, why don't we make one ourselves?" Anyway, no one in the city knew about it, so Wan Niang felt it was no big deal.
"It's not impossible." Ruan Yunsheng accepted it happily, "But it's better to investigate first just in case."
"I'll figure this out. Go fix the employee passage first."
The girls had become accustomed to the new words that the young lady would occasionally utter, but after a few days of training they were still able to understand them and they all went about their work.
Seeing them leave, Ruan Yunsheng raised his finger, and the bronze bell rang. A cold wind blew, and the figures of the Black and White Impermanence appeared, and they seemed to be dragging two unwilling guys behind them.
When I walked closer, I found that it was a man with an ox head and a horse face. He was tall and strong, and there were tattoos carved on his arms. It was really an eye-catching sight.
"Why are you two pulling us along while you work? Let go, I'm busy."
Bai Wuchang put his arm around Ma Mian's shoulders like a good friend and said, "Great! Don't worry, as long as you pull this off, you two will definitely be the top performers this month."
This time, I have to drag these two unlucky guys into doing the work together!
How could Ruan Yunsheng not see through this little trick? But who wouldn't love someone who didn't work so hard? She immediately smiled and greeted them, "Thank you for your hard work, my lords! You've discovered something strange, and I thought only the four pillars of the underworld like you could understand it."
Are these guys so powerful? Even little humans know of their existence?
The Ox-Head and Horse-Face were so dazed by the flattery that when they came to their senses, they found themselves standing in the secret room of the Ye Mansion's ancestral hall.
"Hey, please come in, sir." Ruan Yunsheng bowed 90 degrees and invited the slaves in very sincerely.
“This is…” The bull head’s big copper bell eyes suddenly widened even wider, “Soul Sealing Seal!!”
"What is this?" Ruan Yunsheng asked humbly.
The Black and White Impermanence took a big step back in an instant, revealed the Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and waved their hands.
Ask him, ask him, are you kidding? They both got in through connections, how would they know?
Ruan Yunsheng didn't know if it was just an illusion, but she felt like the chain had loosened a bit. She remembered it being tight when she first saw it.
"What on earth happened to the Ye family?" Ruan Yunsheng took the opportunity to fire off a barrage of questions, "Who was that old man you were seducing last time? Why is he staying here? What's the purpose of this formation..."
"Stop, stop, stop!" Horse-Faced Guard covered his ears. "You girl are more impatient than the judge in this case."
"You two tell me." He pulled out the Black and White Impermanence who had huddled in the corner. "Who is that old man?"
"I don't know."
The clear eyes were filled with innocence and ignorance, which made Ma Mian furious. He shouldn't have believed the words of these two rubbish, so he turned around and left without any hesitation.
"Don't, Brother Ma."
Hei Wuchang shamelessly threw himself on the ground, hugged his thighs, and cried, "What will we do if you leave?"
"I'll take care of you."
Seeing that there was no way to persuade him to stay, Bai Wuchang suddenly had an idea and shouted, "As long as you help us, I will find a way to transfer you to work for Yan Jun."
Look at what I said, it’s such a round cake, even the Ox-Head and Horse-Face won’t accept it.
"Really? She can testify." Hei Wuchang quickly rolled over to Ruan Yunsheng's side and introduced her enthusiastically, "This person is Yan Jun's partner and a key figure. Transferring her to another position is a piece of cake."
Ruan Yunsheng looked at her as if she had seen a ghost. Wasn't this boasting a bit too much? What if she couldn't cover it up later?
Hei Wuchang glanced at it and pretended not to see it. He had a premonition that today's matter was definitely not that simple.
"Okay."
The Ox-Head and Horse-Head looked at each other and finally agreed. They were tired of this job, working from dawn to dusk every day without even a break, and they didn't want to do it anymore.
"Well now you can explain about the old man."
After the play, Ruan Yunsheng quickly got into the mood. He really didn't have time to play with them. Time was tight and the task was heavy, don't you understand?
…
In fact, he really didn't know whether there was a possibility.
Seeing the guilty look on their faces, the Ox-Head and Horse-Face knew that they would not get any results from asking them. They also had no idea what these two were doing and why they went to work without using their brains every day.
"What about the Book of Life and Death? Like the one from last time?" Ruan Yunsheng refused to give up and got to the bottom of it.
"That thing is in the hands of the judge, how could we get it?" Black and White Impermanence muttered in a low voice.
Ruan Yunsheng completely collapsed. Connections are not allowed! ! !
"Actually, it doesn't matter if there's no Book of Life and Death."
After all, he was his brother, so Niu Tou decided to help him: "This soul seal has been damaged by the passage of time. In a few days, when the seal is broken and the suppressed soul comes out, we will know the answer."
It seems that my perception was correct. The chain was indeed loose, but... what if there was a super powerful thing underneath? Ruan Yunsheng frowned and questioned.
"No." Horse-Faced Ghost said firmly, "Judging from this soul seal, he must be just a half-baked Taoist priest. If he were truly a great ghost, he wouldn't be trapped by such a simple seal."
So... Ruan Yunsheng reasonably guessed that the souls of the Ye family might be sealed here.
"Since the seal is so fragile, why not break it now?"
"After all, he is an expert. I don't have a high level of cultivation and no special powers. It's a thankless job and I won't do it." Horse-Faced Mask refused without thinking. It would only take a few days anyway.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I have the magic weapon."
So the four ghost messengers just watched Ruan Yunsheng take out one magic weapon after another from the space. The golden light was so dazzling that the four poor ghosts could hardly open their eyes.
"Is there anything suitable?" Ruan Yunsheng was a little tired and panting.
“Do you have any more?” Hei Wuchang was stunned. Who on earth was the person who asked them for magical weapons the first time they met?! How could this person have the nerve to ask them for magical weapons when he had so many?
"Don't you have anything suitable? Actually, I have some more." As he said that, he was ready to continue taking out.
The Horse-Faced Guard stopped him, picked out the smallest magical weapon, and forced a hard smile: "This one is fine."
I felt more and more that this person really knew Lord Yan, so the transfer was a sure thing!
The horse-faced demon threw the magic weapon into the air, chanting an unknown spell, and his ghost power was fully revealed.
“#￥%……&*!”
As the last strange syllable fell, the blood-colored spell on the stone suddenly twisted and shattered into pieces as if torn by invisible hands, and the iron chains exploded one by one.
"boom--"
An extremely cold air flow suddenly erupted, and countless souls poured out like a flood, filling the entire secret room in the blink of an eye.
There was an old woman with half her body missing, a woman holding a baby, and even a ghost who looked like a scholar holding a half-broken brush in his hand...
"Twenty-three people..." Hei Wuchang muttered, "Does this mean the entire Ye family is sealed here?"
A chilling wind howled in the secret room, and twenty-three souls floated around like headless flies. Some curled up in a corner and muttered to themselves, some repeated their last movements before death, and there was an old woman holding a baby that did not exist and humming softly.
Ruan Yunsheng looked at the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon for help: "What's going on?"
"They've been trapped for too long and have lost their minds."
The Black and White Impermanence were able to defeat him this time because they had seen a lot and had some common sense.
"What should we do then!" This is their only clue at the moment, and I hope it won't be lost again.
But the bull's big hoof pointed at her pile of magic tools and said, "Use this. This is a calming incense that can wake them up."
She lowered her head and rummaged around, taking out the dusty bronze lamp. With a wave of the Horse-Faced Ghost Qi, the wick puffed and ignited with a faint blue flame.
In an instant, all the wandering souls stopped moving, and the scenes of death and painful struggles emerged bit by bit like a passing show. This kind of mental torture made them cover their heads in pain, their faces were hideous, and their eyes were full of fear.
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